Dracontolestes

Dracontolestes is a genus of extinct insectivorous mammals in the family Mixodectidae. It is known only from a fragment of fossilized mandible found in Dragon Canyon, Utah.^[1][2]

Dracontolestes Temporal range: 63.3 to 61.7 Ma
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Dermoptera
Family:	†Mixodectidae
Genus:	†Dracontolestes Gazin, 1941
Species:	†D. aphantus
Binomial name
†Dracontolestes aphantus Gazin, 1941

Species

There is only one known species in the genus, Dracontolestes aphantus.